After wearing my bathing suit as underwear, I realized it was time to do laundry. I think I've been waiting to get a car to do laundry ha. I'm going to make a bold statement here... I bought my car in order to do laundry. Hauling laundry around town without a car or a little wheelie basket thing is the most unappealing thing in THE WORLD.
So, I packed up my focus and headed to the laundromat. I've been doing my own laundry for years now. In high school my mom would always shrink my clothes so I took over my own laundry duties then. Anyways, I popped the clothes and the coins into their allotted positions and I sat down to read/text my lovelies back home.
Then Betty walks in with her grandson. Betty is a teacher and an outgoing and lovely woman. She was teaching her ten year old grandson how to do laundry so that he'd be prepared for college and the future. We struck up a conversation about life, love, marriage and goals. Betty is in the middle of a divorce and my parents are divorced, so the conversation got real. I told her about my LA dreams and she was totally onboard with it. She said to focus on those goals and that everything else would fall in place. She also said to make my future partner go through an extensive interview process haha. I love that idea.
I will say that I've met a lot of kind and open people during my time here in Oakland. Many interesting conversations and opinions, but always welcoming and supportive. This place isn't as tough and radical as everyone claims it is. Or maybe it is and I just haven't seen it yet.
I love when I get a chance to believe in humanity again.
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